The long forest road was empty at the moment, and the treetops with the breeze seemed solemn and cold.

Octagon squeezed to Mu An's side, and whispered: "Miss, why don't we go back, the slave maid thinks it's gloomy here, why is there no one." ”

"It's okay", Mu An watched Qing Jian go up and knock on the door.

The knock on the door echoed in the forest, alarming the birds resting in the forest, and they fluttered their wings and went away.

Frightened, Mu Lanlan was excited, grabbed Mu An's arm, and his face was full of guilt: "Big sister, let's go back and come back another day, it's really not right here." ”

Mu An's dark iris paid attention to all the movements around him, the incense of the Bathing Buddha Temple has been vigorous, why did he quietly close the temple today?

Just as he was thinking about the heavy "creaking" sound above, the temple door opened.

Qing Jian blocked the door with a cold face and guarded, and after a while, a little monk came out of it, and glanced at Mu An and the others in a panic, and saw that they were all women, ordinary pilgrims, so he put his hands together and bowed slightly, and said reverently: "How many donors are here to offer incense?" ”

"Exactly", Mu Lanlan pulled Mu An and Bajiao to walk up, and saluted the little monk: "I come every month, what is there in the temple today, so the temple is closed?" ”

If this is really the case, then she will come for nothing, and she has to find time to come again, blame the trouble, Mu Lanlan can't help but be lonely.

The little monk was very polite, smiled slightly and shook his head: "There are few people today, and the donors have come from afar, please come inside." ”

Mu Lanlan raised her eyebrows, coughed a few times, turned to Mu An and said, "Big sister, let's go in." ”

Mu An didn't move, Qing Jian didn't move, the two looked at each other, Qing Jian shook his head almost imperceptibly, the temple was too quiet, except for the wind and grass, there was no movement at all, in the daytime, in a place like the Bathing Buddha Temple, how could there be no sound at all.

Besides, if it is really as this little monk said, there are few people today, then the temple will not be closed, and the door will be opened after knocking for a long time.

Rao is Mu Lanlan is stupid, seeing that Mu An and Qing Jian's wary and suspicious expressions have sensed something, she pulled Mu An's sleeve and took a step back quietly, and said: "Big sister, I suddenly don't want to go, let's go back, okay tomorrow?" ”

Mu An stretched his eyebrows and smiled at her: "Okay." ”

Qing Jian whispered to the little monk: "I'm sorry." ”

After speaking, he escorted Mu An and a few people to the bottom of the steps.

The stairs of more than twenty floors were covered with dead branches and leaves blown by the wind in the night, which added a bit of desolation, and Mu Anmo counted the steps and paid attention to the movements around them, waiting for them to reach the fifth step.

The little monk behind him caught up and stopped them, panicked and stammered: "A few donors and so on." ”

The blade of the sword in Qing Jian's hand was a few points away from the sheath, her eyes were cold, and the little monk's hands trembled because of her full of evil energy, and his eyes dodged: "Since the donors are here, let's go to the temple to offer incense." ”

"Do you have to put incense on when you come?" Mu An said coldly: "Little Master is hiding something, trying to trick us into entering, this bathing Buddha temple has always been full of incense, and today except for us who really didn't come to the pilgrim?" ”

"This ......" The little monk stammered, couldn't say why, lowered his head and struggled for a moment, suddenly his face was full of panic, pushing Mu An and whispering: "Let's go, let's go, let......'s go."

Mu An was stunned for a moment and grabbed his wrist: "What happened in the temple?" ”

This time, before the little monk could speak, the temple door suddenly opened, and the old temple door in disrepair let out a roar of the last years, and a group of fierce and vicious people with swords broke through the door and rushed out, only a few breaths before and after, and more than a dozen people surrounded Mu An and them.

The sharp sword in Qing Jian's hand was unsheathed, and the "hum" sword roared out a long groan.

"If you want to blame it, you are too verbose, and your luck is not good", a big man came out from behind the crowd, wearing a tiger skin coat, a long scar on the right side of his face, and a nine-ring goose wing knife in his hand.

The dexterous goose wing knife was seriously out of shape with his stature, and Mu An's first thought was to pity a good knife.

Mu Lanlan, who had long been frightened by this face, lost her seven souls, holding Mu An's brocade sleeves with both hands and sweating, her little face was pale, and she trembled in a low voice: "Big ...... Big sister, this is ...... What's going on? ”

Mu An protected her behind him and comforted her in a low voice: "Don't be afraid. ”

The big man looked at Mu An and his party, paused a little on Qing Jian, and laughed: "Yo, there is still a practitioner here?" ”

"Less nonsense", Qing Jian said coldly: "Let your people retreat and let us go." ”

The big man seemed to have heard a big joke, and even laughed loudly with a circle of treacherous eyes, and a few rampant people also poked the octagon behind him with the weapons in their hands, and the octagon screamed and hid behind Mu An.

Mu An looked at the outfits of these people with a heart, and she couldn't hide the gangsterism, she asked tentatively: "You guys are from that mountain?" ”

The big man glared at her viciously, and said contemptuously: "Brothers, I have good luck today, and it is different to catch a big and rich lady." ”

After speaking, a circle of people around them was about to escort Mu An and them in, and as soon as Qing Jian's long sword was horizontal, he forced the two pairs of claws back.

The big man was not happy, and said in a muffled voice: "Bring it all in!" ”

Saying that, a group of his subordinates swarmed up, the sword in his hand was eyeless, Mu An kicked two in the process of dodging, Qing Jian pulled the octagonal and Mu Lanlan still had the upper hand, the swordsmanship was fierce, and no one dared to enter their bodies for a while.

The anxiously worried little monk next to him was stunned by this sudden flip, and froze in place, chanting silently with his hands folded.

"Boss", a mountain bandit walked up to the big man and whispered: "Don't bring people in a moment, we have to leave quickly." ”

The big man immediately turned his face dark, shouted inside, and more than a dozen people with knives and sticks came out one after another.

Muan: "......"

Bully others!

"There's a lot of people on the other side, huh?" She whispered, "We can't run out with them, can we?" ”

Qing Jian frowned slightly: "Miss, I'll cover you, you go first." ”

Mu An shook his head, forget it, let's go together.

"What do you say?" The big man shouted: "The acquaintance went in obediently, the sword has no eyes, and it is a pity that the little lady's thin skin and tender flesh are injured." ”

"Ahh Mu An took a sip: "In broad daylight, a group of mountain bandits dare to be arrogant to this point, and they are not afraid that the imperial court will send people to suppress you!" ”

"The Imperial Court? Brother Phoenix Mountain has been free for so many years, and I have never seen a soldier in the imperial court, who is Xiao Nizi scaring about, I know that you and the one next to you have a little kung fu, but the other two girls are not good, don't hurt for a while! ”

"Take it all with me!"

Qing Jian was angry, and Mu An held her down: "Don't be impatient." ”

After a while, several people were cleared up, and the little monk circled around, groveling: "The donor let them go, they are just passing by, why bother to harm the innocent." ”

"Get out of the way", a mountain bandit sneered and kicked the little monk away, pushing Mu An and the others to go inside.

As soon as I entered, I found that there were still a lot of people guarding the entire temple, so couldn't this be that the people from the entire mountain had come?

In the main hall, the Bodhisattva sat in front of a circle and closed his eyes and chanted sutras, and the old monks who were unmoved heard that Mu An and their innocent people were arrested, and the senior monk at the front whispered: "Amitabha, sin and sin." ”

These mountain bandits all used them as air, put a few people to guard them, took Mu An and the others all the way into the side hall, pushed the door open and threw people in.

Mu An staggered for a long time before he stood firm, and as soon as he turned around, a sharp blade was placed on his neck: "Go back!" ”

"Okay, good", Mu An reluctantly walked inside, and suddenly her eyes narrowed, and she saw a pair of white paws happily welcoming her, as if this was some great place.

Shen Xingyi smiled like a flower, and shouted loudly: "Sister Mu......"

As expected, the next moment she was hit with a stick and immediately died down.

Mu An consciously went to squat down beside her, Shen Xingyi became more and more happy, and forgot about the stick just now, and said excitedly: "Why was Sister Mu also arrested?" ”

"I didn't see Huang Libei when I went out", Mu An sneered.

There are quite a lot of people in the side hall, and the center of the entire side hall is full, all of them are trembling and holding their heads, and they don't dare to come out of the atmosphere, all of them are sad and panicked.

Of course...... Except for Shen Xingyi!

This person was giggling, looking left and right, Mu An sat next to her for a while and she didn't stop, and smiled at Mu An from time to time, looking heartless.

Mu Lanlan was also infected, and she made up her mind a lot, and pulled the corner of Lamuan's clothes: "Big sister, who are they, will we be caught somewhere?" ”

"No, don't worry." Mu An patted her and the anise, but she didn't panic.

These people looked ferocious, but they didn't kill a single person, at most they kicked two feet and hit a few sticks.

When Shen Xingyi heard this, he smiled "hehe": "They are the mountain masters of Phoenix Mountain." ”

Mu An raised an eyebrow and looked at her? What's that?

"It's the head of Phoenix Mountain, the whole mountain is theirs", Shen Xingyi explained smugly: "It's also our bad luck, we happened to bump into them down the mountain to rob them when we came to Shangxiang today, Sister Mu rest assured, as long as you don't mess with them, they won't kill anyone, and at most they will tie us up the mountain for a few days." ”

"Tie up the mountain?" Mu Lanlan was frightened, her chest was tight, and she coughed in a low voice, coughing intermittently, her internal organs ached.

They are all women from white families, how can they be tied up the mountain by mountain bandits?

"Oh, don't be afraid", Shen Xingyi said while comforting her: "I told my brother before I left, if I don't go back later, he will come to me, and we will be fine." ”

"Do you know these people?" Mu An asked Qing Jian in a low voice.

Qing Jian didn't think twice: "Listening to Miss Shen, I have heard a little that Phoenix is three miles away from the Bathing Buddha Temple, and there is indeed a village on the mountain, which is all about burning, killing and looting, and it has not been very active in recent years, so the court may not have paid attention to it for a while." ”

"The owner of the village is called Geng Zhizhong, who once stayed in the tiger and wolf barracks, and finally committed something and was degraded, hid in the mountains, and was irritable, and those who were caught on the mountain did not come down alive a few years ago", Qing Jian said in a deep voice: "If these people are arrested, I am afraid that there will be a dead end." ”

After a long time of being comfortable on the side, Shen Xingyi listened to it, and her face turned white with a brush.

“……”